《傲慢与偏见》第 17 期

“That is very true,” replied Elizabeth, “and I could easily forgive _his_ pride, if he had not mortified _mine_.”

“这话说得很对，”伊丽莎白回答道，“如果他的骄傲没有伤害到我的自尊，我本来很容易原谅_他的_骄傲。”

“Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, “is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“骄傲，”玛丽说道。她一向以自己思考的严谨周密而自负，“我相信，这是一种十分普遍的缺点。根据我所读过的一切，我确信它确实非常普遍；人的本性尤其容易染上这种毛病，而我们当中很少有人不会因为自己具备某种真实的或想象中的品质，而怀有一种自我满足感。虚荣和骄傲是两回事，尽管这两个词常常被当作同义词使用。一个人可以骄傲，却并不虚荣。骄傲更多关乎我们对自己的看法；虚荣则关乎我们希望别人如何看待自己。”

“If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy,” cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, “I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine every day.”

“如果我像达西先生那么有钱，”随姐妹们一同来的卢卡斯家一个年轻人喊道，“我才不在乎自己多么骄傲呢。我会养一群猎狐犬，每天喝一瓶酒。”

“Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought,” said Mrs. Bennet; “and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly.”

“那你喝的可就远远超过你应该喝的量了，”班纳特太太说道，“要是让我看见你这样，我立刻就会把你的酒瓶拿走。”

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would; and the argument ended only with the visit.

男孩抗议说她不该这样做；她却继续声明自己一定会这样做；这场争论直到这次拜访结束才告终。

CHAPTER VI.

第六章。

The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due form. Miss Bennet’s pleasing manners grew on the good-will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with _them_ was expressed towards the two eldest. By Jane this attention was received with the greatest pleasure; but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hardly excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value, as arising, in all probability, from the influence of their brother’s admiration. It was generally evident, whenever they met, that he _did_ admire her; and to _her_ it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and an uniform cheerfulness of manner, which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent. She mentioned this to her friend, Miss Lucas.

朗博恩的女士们不久便登门拜访了尼日斐花园的女士们。对方也依照礼数回访了。班纳特小姐讨人喜欢的举止，渐渐赢得了赫斯特太太和宾利小姐的好感；虽然她们觉得班纳特太太令人难以忍受，几个妹妹也不值得一提，却表示希望能同两位年长的小姐进一步相识。简对此番关注感到无比欣喜；但伊丽莎白仍看出她们待人——即使对自己的姐妹也几乎不例外——带着傲慢轻蔑，因此无法喜欢她们；不过，她们对简的善意——不论这种善意究竟有多少——很可能是源于她们兄长的爱慕，所以也有其价值。每逢相见，宾利先生显然确实爱慕简；而对伊丽莎白来说，同样显而易见的是，简正逐渐回应自己从一开始便对他产生的好感，而且眼看就要深深爱上他了；但她欣慰地想到，这种情形不大可能被世人普遍察觉，因为简虽感情深厚，却性情沉静，举止始终愉快自若，这足以使她不受那些无礼之人的猜疑。她把这件事告诉了自己的朋友卢卡斯小姐。